I just bought my first mac and I am a recent windows convert, so please be patient with my noob questions
I am trying to write a script that opens up two safari windows of equal size side by side, I have gotten this far:
tell application "Safari"
make new document with properties {URL:"http://www.google.ca"}
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(" & (screen_width / 2) as string) & ",screen.availHeight)" in document 1
make new document with properties {URL:"http://www.google.ca"}
do JavaScript ("self.resizeTo(" & ((screen_width / 2) - 1) as string) & ",screen.availHeight);moveTo(720,0)" in document 1
end tell
This opens up two windows side by side, however they are blank and I want them to display http://www.google.ca. It seems as though after the do JavaScript function the windows go blank and I have no idea why. Any ideas?
AppleScript | OS is for OS 9 and previous systems.
As far as helping goes, I have two screens, and that seems to completely confuse Safari so the script doesn’t work as intended with or without Google.
tell application "Safari"
make new document
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(" & (screen_width / 2) as string) & ",screen.availHeight)" in document 1
do JavaScript ("window.location.href = \"http://www.google.ca\"") in document 1
make new document
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("moveTo(720,0);self.resizeTo(" & ((screen_width / 2) - 1) as string) & ",screen.availHeight);" in document 1
do JavaScript ("window.location.href = \"http://www.google.ca\"") in document 1
end tell
however, only one of the windows opens up in the right place. not sure what to do about that.
If the javascript is run before the page fully loads, then you lose the url. You could a delay or check, but I’d position windows first, then load the page as waltr tried.
Hey thanks alot, I figured out why yours didn’t move to the right location:
tell application "Safari"
make new document
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(" & (screen_width / 2) as string) & ",screen.availHeight)" in document 1
do JavaScript ("window.location.href = \"http://www.google.ca\"") in document 1
make new document
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("self.resizeTo(" & ((screen_width / 2) - 1) as string) & ",screen.availHeight);moveTo(720,0);" in document 1
do JavaScript ("window.location.href = \"http://www.google.ca\"") in document 1
end tell
you have to move after you resize because the window resizes the same length both left and right from the center
I have a different size screen. To avoid overlapping windows, I came up with:
tell application "Safari"
repeat 2 times
make new document
set the screen_width to (do JavaScript "screen.availWidth" in document 1) as integer
do JavaScript ("moveTo(0,0);self.resizeTo(" & ((screen_width / 2) - 1) as string) & ",screen.availHeight)" in document 1
do JavaScript ("window.location.href = \"http://www.google.ca\"") in document 1
end repeat
set {b1, b2, b3, b4} to (get bounds of window 1)
set theBounds to {b1, b2, b3, b4}
set the bounds of window 1 to {(b1 + b3 +2), b2, (b3 * 2), b4}
end tell
I’m sure somebody more knowledgeable can clean that up a bit.
